21.7% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people born outside Australia (birthplace-not-stated excluded).
Mount Edwards · Suburb / Locality
Ancestry & Birthplace in Mount Edwards
Where people and their families come from — the ancestries they identify with and where they were born.
A gap of 6 percentage points separates Mount Edwards from the national average for overseas births. While the area is more diverse than most similar places, it remains a small community where over three quarters of the population were born in Australia.
Ancestry
The ancestries people most identify with.
English is the most common ancestry at 56.7%, followed by Australian at 21.7% and Scottish at 13.3%.
Country of birth
Australia and the largest overseas communities.
About 21.7% of people were born overseas, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure is a little below the Queensland rate of 22.7% and well below the Australian average of 27.7%, with the most common birthplaces being Australia (76.7%), England (8.3%) and New Zealand (5.0%).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Ancestry & Birthplace in Mount Edwards [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31957/mount-edwards/topic/ancestry-heritage